Shoeless Trivia: Episode 27 (Baseball)

Back to the regular format for a couple of days. Play ball!

1. This man didn’t invent baseball, but he did fire the first shot from Fort Sumter of the Civil War and later was granted a patent for the cable car system in San Francisco. Who is he?
2. What is the oldest team in Major League Baseball to never have had a pitcher win the Cy Young Award?
3. Though he didn’t break Roger Maris’s home run record until 1998, Mark McGwire and another player both came close in 1997. McGwire had 58 homers. Who was the other contender, who ended the season with 56?
4. What 1973 movie features Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro as a pitcher and catcher respectively for the fictional New York Mammoths?
5. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This former Padres and Cardinals shortstop, nicknamed “The Wizard”, joined the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002, his first year of eligibility.

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1. Abner Doubleday
2. Cincinnati Reds
3. Ken Griffey, Jr.
4. Bang the Drum Slowly
5. Ozzie Smith